Description
Contents: Special Features – Perspective: Route Of The Electroliners (Remembering the North Shore Line after twenty-one years); Boomer Trail (RMC presents photographs from its readers); Pacific Coast Logging: Steam Locomotives (This month we examine steam power on the western logging railroads) Modeling – In HARM’s Way (HARM stands for the Hartford Associates for Railroad Modeling and this month we’ll visit with this special group of modelers); Four-By-Eight Plus One-Half (Here are plans for five small, but interesting, layouts); Easy Bridge Mounting (This is a simple way to avoid track alignment problems when installing bridges); The Milwaukee Road’s New Look (A Milwaukee Road enthusiast models the line’s latest paint scheme); Coal Cars For The Colorado Midland (An AHM flat car is the basis for this inexpensive conversion); Signs And Philosophy (Signs can be used to identify both a time and a setting on a layout); Beginning From Scratch (The basics of scratch building a model are covered in this article); RMC/Dremel Kit bashing Award: CPR Kootenay Division Short Van (A uniquely-styled caboose that was kit bashed from a Juneco kit) Prototype – Pacific Coast Logging: Catheld & Sorenson’s Prairie In The Mountains (A history of C&S No. 1 and scale drawings are featured in this article); Pacific Coast Logging: The Water Tank At Chemainus (This is a typical backwoods water tank) Departments – Notes On An Old Timetable (Editorial); Safety Valve (Letters from our readers); Dispatchers Report (Product and industry news); Rail books (Book news and reviews); RMC Timetable (Scheduled events and notices); Test Track (Product reviews); Tips And Techniques (Modeling methods and ideas); Observations (Growing up with a hobby); Collector Consist (Our Scale Heritage: The 700E); Editor’s Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Exchange Place (Non-commercial listings); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Advertising Index
Issue: February 1984
Condition: Very Good